The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-07

Her Door and Shot 49, The Wife of an
Embarrassed Merchant Bids in the
Stock ofGoods at Cuthbert.
GEORGIA.
sThe telephone wires are being strung at
Americas.
The pressing demand in Lafayette is for
more houses.
Tennlle continues to grow At least ten
houses are in course of erection and not a
vacant house in the place.
R. NJ. Tison has discovered some rich
beds of phosphate on his lands on Turtle
river and Green creek, near Brunswick.
The trade for the Hamilton Hotel be-
tween DR.. 7. j. Brooks and S. X. Murphey
has been cancelled Rev. w. A. Farley has
rented it.
The taxable property in Franklin county
was given in this year at Sl,6S9,96 There
are 2,0S7 poll tax payers, $50 whites and
407 colored.
James Fl. Moore, young man who lives
in Blue Spring district of harris county,
was killed by box to a cotton press Thurs
day bursting while packing bale of cotton.
j. L. Jones, of Belltown neighborhood,
Washington county, is using a pair of
crutches which six other parties afflicted
with rheumatism have used, all of whom
have been restored.
w. II. johnson, of Hamilton, while try
ing to ride young Texas horse, came near
losing his life. The horse became frightened
and ran off, throwing Mr.. johnson against
fence, breaking his collar bone.
A gentleman residing few miles north of
Greenville raised this year on one-seventh of
an acre of land ribbon cane enough to make
fifty gallons of excellent syrup, besides put
ting aside large supply of cane for seed.
nr-1o e l,n1
stolen from him in New York city on last
Friday night. He went there to make some
disposition of his patent hammer, and put
up at the Aston House and during the night
his money was stolen from his room.
Robert F. Miller, who lives out four miles
from Carrollton on the Jacksonville road,
had the misfortune ON last Monday evening
of having HE gun house, two cotton gins
and press and about four bales of cotton
destroyed by fire. Three of the bales were
in the seed and one in lint
Saturday night negro woman named
Anna Ross, living just east of Coles ware
house, at Griffin, was called to the door,
and when she came the caller shot her in
the neck, inflicting a slight flesh wound.
The assailant is thought to be a negro work
ing on the Georgia Midland railroad.
At Cuthbert the stock of hardware and
groceries of C. n. Simpson, Jr., have been
SDHu Dy bU6 EOneIIIl, uil1eG u mortgage lore
closure and brought over $1,000, and bid in
for Mrs. Simpson. The business will now
be conducted by Mr.. Simpson as his wifes
agent. Both stores are in full blast again.
In the near future an immense saw mill
will be erected few miles northwest of
Quitman by a New Jersey company. A
tram will be run to the Savannah, Florida
and Western railroad, and will extend north
into the timbered country This enterprise
will he of grant haDafit n Ch1itman and SIIr-
rounding country.
Frank Curtis who lives on A. N. Beach's
place near Oak Grove, jefferson county,
lost his dwelling, kitchen and smokehouse,
and everything in them, by fire Thursday.
He and all his family were in the field, and
before they could reach home all they had
was fast burning up No fire was left in
the house, and it is not known how it origi-
mated.
Daniel r. Miley, of Dupont, formerly of
Lowndes county, was found in a dying con-
ditlon in his yard Tuesday last. His wife
was in Lowndes on visit, and the old man,
who is 20 odd years old was at home by
himself. When found his skull was crushed
in from blow as with an ak. 1t is not
known who committed the foul deed nor
how it happened.
Crawfordvi1e Democrat: While in Ogle-
thorpe last week we were shown potato
bAdb WIS CeI UdltllN peculiar. III grew IN Uu6
ground like other potatoes and on a vine
like others, but the popularity about it was
this: 1t had inscribed upon one side of it
the letter "Bn as perfect as if it had been
made by hand, but this grew this way and
the hand of nature did the work. And to
make the potato a more wonderful thing,
the letter thereon was the initial of the gen
tleman who raised the potato
July Jones, a worthy colored man, who
ohp ~,
county, on Tuesday last had his dwelling
and kitchen, together with their contents,
laid in ashes. July went to a trunk to get
some clothing at an early hour, and held
torch in one hand while he got the clothing
with the other. He thinks some of the fire
dropped among the clothing in the trunk
and thus originated the fire When he dis
covered the fire it was under full Roadway.
and all his household and kitchen furniture,
provisions, etc., were consumed.
S. Mayer advertises his real estate in AL
beny for sale. His business is now i'll Bruins
wick, and his children are there and he has
decided to make that city his future home.
MIR. Mayer owns between SIS, 900 and $50
600 worth of property in and around AL
bany, all of which he now offers for sale.
He came to Albany way back yonder in the
'forties,n when the place was but q little
village, and, first peddling and afterward
engaging in the mercantile business, grew
up with the town. The real estate which he
offers for sale represents but a small part of
his accommodations.
Last Monday little child of John Rich
ardson, who lives in the southern portion of
Berrien county, met with horrible death
The mother was washing few hundred
yards from the house, but before leaving
extinguished the fire. She left her little
daughter at the house with the baby, the
latter about years old. Some time after
the mother left, the little girl started a fire.
The screams of the girl soon attracted the
mothers attention, and when she reached
the house she found the baby dead-roasted
alive. 1t is presumed that the child fell in
the fire and swallowed the flame, causing
almost instant death.
Carrollton Free Press. Capt Jim Martin
was in town Wednesday and showed us,
while here, some twenty particles of gold as
large as pinheads, which he had taken from
half gallon of dirt on Mr. lack Hardigrees
place, in Heard county, joining Holdings
worth ferry on the east side of the river.
This dirt was taken from a vein which was
thirty feet from the surface, known to be
four feet wide, and it was thought it was
twelve. Capt. Martin thinks it the richest
gold mine in the country. He says the
place upon which it is located has been
leased by Gov. Gordon, McCutchen and
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